Free books, as in free beer, and more

I had a lovely writing day and also built a writing-submission calendar in Google Calendars, sent out some pieces, scheduled submissions for the next three months, and basically worked on my writing mojo. Restoring my “writing self” has done wonderful things for my ‘tude.

Free books! Harper Collins has just started a blog, Library Love Fest, and they’re giving away books all this week.

It’s small press month. Take a small press to lunch! Or you could buy Powder, an anthology of writing by military women, including my essay “Falling In,” nominated for a Pushcart. Perfect for getting ready for Memorial Day library book displays.

ALA’s Washington Office has a short survey your library will probably want to fill out about what e-government and employment services your library is providing. “Your answers will help us greatly in our work with legislators in Washington DC, as we advocate for library funding and other library interests.” Deadline: March 20, 2009. Questions? Contact Jessica McGilvray at jmcgilvray@alawash.org

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B&T, Ingram, B&N, Amazon, and others carry them, but I must get the word out. Lawrence Schoonover’s historic novels in 40-year-old earlier editions are still in hundreds of libraries around the country. I’m his great nephew and I’ve released newly designed editions of two of them so far (eventually to be nine): Queen’s Cross (Isabella of Castile) and Gentle Infidel (the Siege of Constantinople). Reply to this comment for more information. Or Google him, or check out Wikipedia.

Miriam, “you” could be a librarian, representing a library. 🙂 Sylvie, I love that! I have a whole post on naming brews gestating in my head, and a beer called “Free Beer” surely has to be on that list (and perhaps one called “Free Kittens”)…

I’ve long since decided at some point I need to name a beer YAB, which will stand for “Yet Another Bastard”, “Yet Another Brew” or “Yet Another Beer” depending on the beer or my mood. For those less geeky than me, it’s a computer geek nod to all the “Yet Another” programs out there.

While I occasionally come up with names for beers (usually conjoined with things I want to try) I haven’t been very good about writing them down.